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 AMICOR 3.045

#Dra. Valderês A. R. Achutti (*13/06/1931+15/06/2021)

Mesmo sorriso em Veneza

Nossos agradecimentos pelo carinho e competência à Dra. Maira Caleffi, Dr. Flavo Fernandes, Dr. Dakir Duarte Fo. Dr. Roberto Menegotto, Dra. Laura Barcellos, e tantos outros profissionais que nos atenderam durante dez anos. No dia 22 de agosto, numa 2a freira, consultamos por causa do nódulo que ela havia notado no dia 20. Seguiram-se investigação e tratamento que possibilitaram que ficasse conosco ainda por dez anos.

É uma florzinha de "Dente de Leão" de nosso jardin. Fotografei ontem e postei no FaceBook. Várias amigas gostaram. Tenho uma história da Valderês, com o que ela chamava de radiccella que colhemos passeando por Helsinki na década de oitenta. Pretendo prepará-la para apresentar em homenagem a ela, no próximo AMICOR.

#Da: Academia Sul-Riograndense de Medicna

Temos o prazer de convidá-los para o ENCONTRO DE CIÊNCIA E TECNOLOGIA DA ASRM, a ser realizada no dia 31/08/2021, terça-feira, às 18:30h.

TEMA: "Terapia Gênica" 

Convidado Especial: Prof. Dr. Sérgio Danilo Junho Pena  (Professor Titular do Departamento de Bioquímica e Imunologia e Diretor do Laboratório de Genômica Clínica da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)

Moderador: Prof. Roberto Giugliani          

Entrar na reunião pelo Zoom

 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81089797657

ID de acesso:  810 8979 7657

#From:NATURE

Same-sex attraction seems to be at least partly controlled by genetics. (Piotr Lapinski/NurPhoto via Getty)

Clues to evolution of homosexuality The genetic patterns associated with homosexual behaviour might help people who have only hetrosexual sex to find more partners. Researchers looked at data collected from hundreds of thousands of people, mostly in the United States and United Kingdom, and found that people who’d had at least one same-sex partner tended to share patterns of small genetic differences scattered throughout the genome. Among people who’d had only heterosexual sex, those with numerous partners tended to share some of those same genetic markers. The findings might help solve the evolutionary mystery of how same-sex attraction — which seems to be at least partly genetic — remains widespread despite possibly reducing a person’s number of offspring. But there are plenty of caveats. For instance, participants didn’t define their sexual orientation, just their sexual behaviour — some of which they might have chosen to keep private. Nature | 6 min read Read more: Lead author Brendan Zietsch describes the research in The Conversation (4 min read) Reference: Nature Human Behavior paper & Science paper#Obesity Infographic of the week Feeding mice high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) — a sweetener that is widely used in human foods — seems to promote obesity by boosting the ability of the intestine to absorb nutrients. Nutrients in the gut enter the bloodstream after passing through cells in intestinal protrusions called villi. Mice that received HFCS in their diet had longer villi — and so more surface area for nutrient uptake — and higher levels of fatty molecules called lipids in their blood than did control animals. (Nature News & Views | 6 min read) Reference: Nature paper See more of the week’s key infographics, selected by Nature’s news and art teams. # do MUHM A Associação dos Amigos do Museu de História da Medicina do RS, tem a honra de lhe convidar para assistir e compartilhar a Live: “Jornada da Felicidade: Estratégias para construir uma vida feliz" que será realizada via canal do Youtube do Muhm.. Data: 26/08/2021 - quinta feira  Horário: às 17h  Plataforma: canal do Youtube Muhm no link  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNDW0j8yLLU Contaremos com a participação especial de Solange Kaiber, especialista em Desenvolvimento Humano, mentora pessoal e Coach, mediada pelo presidente da Associação de Amigos do MUHM, Dr. Marcos Rovinski. Pedimos a gentileza de divulgar com seu mailing/contatos.  Atenciosamente,  #From: the NEJM Controversy and Progress in Alzheimer’s Disease — FDA Approval of Aducanumab List of authors. Gil D. Rabinovici, M.D.  August 26, 2021 N Engl J Med 2021; 385:771-774 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2111320 Chinese Translation 中文翻译 ............ /.../Aducanumab’s road to the clinic has been rocky and contentious. The hope is that despite its limitations and challenges, this first-in-class drug will open the door to more efficacious therapies, as has happened with other diseases once onsidered untreatable, such as multiple sclerosis, cancer, and HIV. The modest clinical benefit observed withc beta-amyloid–targeting antibodies should encourage development of drugs targeting other elements of Alzheimer’s pathophysiology (e.g., tau or neuroinflammation), which in combination with amyloid-based therapies might affect the disease trajectory more profoundly. Whether aducanumab proves to be a blockbuster or a bust, its approval heralds a new era in Alzheimer’s disease care that will feature early, biomarker-supported diagnosis and biologically specific therapies. The modern age of Alzheimer’s therapy is upon us, and the field may never look back./.../ #From: QUANTA Magazine Q&A | ALL TOPICS   This Physicist Discovered an Escape From Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox By NATALIE WOLCHOVER The five-decade-old paradox — long thought to be a key to linking quantum theory with Einstein’s theory of gravity — is falling to a new generation of thinkers. Netta Engelhardt is leading the way. Read the interview NEUROSCIENCE   The Brain Doesn’t Think the Way You Think It Does By JORDANA CEPELEWICZ Familiar categories of mental functions such as perception, memory and attention reflect our experience of ourselves, but they are misleading about how the brain works. More revealing approaches are emerging. Read the article Related:  To Pay Attention, the Brain Uses Filters, Not a Spotlight by Jordana Cepelewicz (2019) EXPLAINERS   Banach-Tarski and the Paradox of Infinite Cloning By MAX G. LEVY In 1924, the mathematicians Stefan Banach and Alfred Tarski found a way to use the nature of infinity to split a solid three-dimensional ball into pieces that recombine to form two identical copies of the original. Read the explainer Related:  How Many Numbers Exist? Infinity Proof Moves Math Closer to an Answer. by Natalie Wolchover INSIGHTS PUZZLE   Math Can, in Theory, Help You Escape a Hungry Bear By PRADEEP MUTALIK Our readers used their geometry skills to survive a dangerous puzzle. Read the puzzle solution Related:  Can Math Help You Escape a Hungry Bear? by Pradeep Mutalik Around the Web Is This the Right Number? Westerners tend to orient number lines with bigger numbers further to the right. But for at least one culture, sizes can increase in any direction, Sujata Gupta reports for Science News. The way in which humans associate numbers and other abstractions with places could reflect processes in the hippocampus, where a grid system arrays our memories and more, Jordana Cepelewicz reported for Quanta in 2019. Singularity Rarity Most physicists believe that singularities always appear hidden inside black holes, but proof remains elusive even after decades of effort, Brendan Foster writes for Scientific American. Physicists have guessed at why the cosmos hides singularities. One possibility is that the “snags" in spacetime might always be cloaked because gravity is so weak, Natalie Wolchover reported for Quanta in 2017.  $From: AEON Magazine Photo by Trent Parke/Magnum Philosophy of mind Essay You are a network You cannot be reduced to a body, a mind or a particular social role. An emerging theory of selfhood gets this complexity by Kathleen Wallace Kathleen Wallaceis professor of philosophy at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. She works on ethics and metaphysics of personal identity and is the author of  he Network Self: Relation, Process, and Personal Identity (2019). She lives in New York City. #From:MAHB Greetings to the MAHB Community,    In this week's blog we present: Brandon Finamore: At the Verge   Pollinators across the world are declining due to climate change and other human factors. Here is how an artist tackles this crisis.   Read More